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The Unió de Llauradors estimates that the losses caused by the storms Accompanied by hail last Saturday, and which mainly affected the regions of Baix Maestrat, Plana Baixa and Plana Alta, they leave direct losses in the field of more than eight million euros in a first emergency assessment.
The radius of action of the damage is concentrated, according to the information of the organization, in 2,400 hectares of cultivation, of which more than 1,900 are located in the Baix Maestrat, especially in the town of Benicarló and to a lesser extent in Càlig, Vinaròs and Peñíscola. The remaining 500 hectares are distributed practically equally in the regions of Plana Alta and towns such as Castelló and Almassora and in the Plana Baixa in municipalities such as Real Village and to a lesser extent in Burriana. The most affected crops are citrus, both with damage to fruit currently in the ripening phase and to wood, and vegetables, mainly watermelon and melon, in the middle of the harvesting season, but also other horticultural crops.
The Unió also informs that the damages of the incident last Saturday are covered by the current agricultural insurance system and that it will demand from Agroseguro the speeding up of the appraisal of the damaged parcels.
On the other hand, the organization also claims, apart from the previous measures, the granting of direct aid, the free distribution of fungicide product to heal the damage, the remission of the IBI of the cultivated plots and buildings present in them, the bonus of the Social Security quotas for one year, the establishment of subsidized interest loans and also a series of actions and aid for the affected marketing cooperatives.
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